The chorological concept of geography focused on the study of the earth’s surface in terms of variations between areas (later named areal differentiation), was originally developed by Richthofen (1883) and subsequently advanced by Hettner in Germany. It was popularized and raised to the level of the dominant concept of geography in the English – speaking world through Hartshorne’s monumental Nature of Geography (1939). A strong tradition of regional geography had already developed in France under the leadership of Paul Vidal de la Blache. Indeed regional geography reigned supreme in the world of geographical scholarship until the early 1950’s, after which the regional paradigm for comprehending the earth as the world of man began, starting with Schaefer (1953), to be attacked as one that propagated “exceptionalism” and “ideography” in the discipline and thereby led the geographer away from the fundamental goal of science, i.e. the search for general principles of behaviour. A few years earlier, Kimble (1951) had condemned the concept of region as an eighteenth century concept. He maintained that “it is links in the landscape ………. rather than the breaks that impress” the scientific mind. Bunge (1966) was convinced that the regionalists error lay in their “nation of the uniqueness of location”, owing to which they emphasized exceptions rather than similarities between places and locations. Coupled with this was a general impression that the French tradition of viewing the region as an ecological unit for the analysis of human groups was no longer relevant to the study of places and regions in the post-Industrial Revolution societies like those in Europe. All this contributed to a widespread retreat from regional geography. This meant the “eclipse of a traditional component of geography which was until recently considered a sine quanon of the discipline.